Accessibility at Advance Asphalt
We want this website to work for everyone who needs it — and we want the surfaces we build to work for everyone who uses them. Here is where we stand on both, honestly.
We are a small family business, not a large corporation with a compliance department. We have not commissioned a formal third-party accessibility audit of this website, so we are not going to claim a conformance level we have not verified. What we can tell you is exactly what we have built in, what we know is imperfect, and how to reach a person if something on this site gets in your way.
What we are working toward
We use the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, Level AA as our reference standard. It is the benchmark most widely adopted internationally and the one referenced by the US Department of Justice in its guidance on web accessibility.
Working toward a standard is not the same as being certified against it. We build to those guidelines and we test what we can, but until an independent audit says otherwise we describe this as an ongoing effort rather than a finished state.
What we have built into this site
These are specific and checkable, rather than a list of intentions.
Keyboard navigation
Every interactive element — links, buttons, form fields, the menu, the expanding FAQ panels and our calculators — can be reached and operated with a keyboard alone. No mouse required.
Visible focus indicators
Whatever you are focused on is outlined clearly. We have deliberately not removed the browser's focus ring, which is one of the most common accessibility failures on modern sites.
Skip to content link
Press Tab when a page loads and the first thing you reach is a link that jumps straight past the header and menu to the main content.
Descriptive image alt text
Photographs carry alt text describing what is actually in them. Purely decorative graphics and icons are hidden from screen readers so they do not add noise.
Labelled form fields
Every field on every estimate form has a real, associated label — not a placeholder standing in for one. Placeholder-only forms are unusable with many assistive technologies.
Reduced motion respected
If your device is set to reduce motion, our fade-in animations are switched off and the background video on the home page never loads at all.
Semantic structure
Pages use proper headings in order, landmark regions and real list markup, so screen reader users can navigate by structure rather than reading everything top to bottom.
Text that resizes
Content is built with relative sizing, so browser zoom and larger default text sizes work without content overlapping or disappearing off the edge.
No motion or sound traps
Nothing auto-plays with sound, nothing flashes, and no pop-up interrupts you. The one background video is muted, decorative and hidden from assistive technology.
Where we know we fall short
A statement that only lists successes is not much use to anyone. These are the things we are aware of.
Known limitations
- No independent audit yet. Our testing is internal — keyboard navigation, browser zoom, and automated checking tools. That is not the same as testing with real assistive technology users, and we know it.
- Colour contrast has not been verified everywhere. We have designed for strong contrast, but we have not measured every text and background combination across every page against the WCAG ratio thresholds.
- Our interactive tools are the least tested part of the site. The calculators and permit-check tools update their results dynamically. We have marked those regions so screen readers announce changes, but this is the area we are least confident about.
- The home page background video has no captions. It is decorative, silent and carries no information, which is why we consider it acceptable — but we are noting it rather than hoping nobody asks.
- Third-party content is outside our control. Our estimate forms are submitted through an external service, and links to city, county, state and federal websites lead to pages whose accessibility we do not manage.
- Older pages are still being reviewed. Parts of this site were rebuilt recently and parts have not been revisited yet. The newer pages are the more accessible ones.
None of these are excuses. They are a to-do list, and we would rather publish it than pretend it does not exist.
Found a barrier? Tell us.
If any part of this website prevents you from getting information or contacting us, we want to hear about it — and you will reach an actual person, not a ticket queue. Tell us the page, what you were trying to do, and what happened. If you use assistive technology, knowing which one helps us reproduce the problem.
Our commitment: we aim to acknowledge accessibility reports within 5 business days and to tell you plainly whether we can fix the issue, how long it will take, or why we cannot. If something on this site is blocking you from requesting an estimate, call us and we will simply take your details over the phone.
Accessibility in the work we do
Web accessibility is one half of this. The other half is the ground people actually walk and drive on, and that is our day job.
When we resurface or restripe a commercial parking lot, accessible parking is part of the conversation from the estimate onward rather than an afterthought. That matters more than most property owners realise: under Department of Justice guidance, restriping a parking lot triggers an obligation to provide accessible parking meeting the 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design. A routine maintenance job becomes a compliance event, and a lot that has been legally fine for decades can fall out of compliance on the day it is improved.
We would rather raise that at the quote stage than have a client discover it later. We have written up the requirements in full — including the scoping table, space dimensions, the 1:48 maximum slope, and a free calculator that works out how many accessible spaces a lot needs — in our guide to commercial parking lot maintenance.
One Colorado-specific point worth repeating here: freeze-thaw settlement can push an accessible space or access aisle past the maximum permitted slope without anything visibly changing. The striping still looks correct and the signs are still standing. If your accessible spaces have been through several winters without the surface being addressed, that is worth measuring rather than assuming.
We are a paving contractor, not an accessibility consultant, and we do not certify compliance. What we can do is flag what we see, build to the published standards, and tell you when something looks wrong.
How this page will change
This statement is meant to be maintained, not filed and forgotten. As we work through the limitations listed above we will update this page to reflect what has actually been fixed rather than what we intend to fix. If we commission a formal audit, we will say so and publish what it found.
Last reviewed: 27 August 2026 · Standard referenced: WCAG 2.1 Level AA · Conformance status: partially conformant, self-assessed, no independent audit
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